Re: Can I define a variable char field in DDS for a Physical file -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Can I define a variable char field in DDS for a Physical file
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:37:58 -0500
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Sure - there's a keyword for this - VARLEN without parentheses does it.

If you want to specify an allocated-length, put that in parentheses after VARLEN.

Cheers
Vern

On 9/13/2017 3:25 PM, a4g atl wrote:

If yes, how do I do it?

Always done this is SQL but I need to do it in the PF this time.

TIA

Darryl Freinkel

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